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I lurch forward and press my fingers into Emily’s neck, thinking the

worst.

When I feel her pulse, I almost get dizzy with relief.

However, it’s weak and her skin feels clammy.

I reach up and push her hair off her pale face so I can see her more

clearly.

Her eyes are open, but staring dully, sightlessly at nothing.

“Emily!” I say, more loudly this time, trying to jolt her out of

whatever this is.

When that doesn’t work, I try saying her name again, even louder,

and give her shoulders a gentle shake.

She doesn’t respond, remaining limp and listless beneath my

hands.

Has she gone into some kind of catatonic state?

But why?

She was furious when I left her, not scared.

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What the hell could have caused this in the short few hours I left

her here?

My stomach is churning with anxiety as I lift her out of the tight

space.

She still doesn’t stir, and I cradle her gently in my arms as I hurry upstairs to her room.

Luckily, I don’t see anyone else on the way.

I don’t want anyone to see Emily like this.

if she knew, but also because she would worry people would see her as more broken and fragile than she already

never think

what happened to her when she was abducted by the old

ruin her, if anything, it made her more of a fighter than she probably already was.

everyone survives something like that, but Emily did, and I respect her for that, if

I take her into her room and slam

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do with

whatever this is.

about putting her in the shower and hitting her with a spray of cold water, but that seems unbearably cruel when she’s already in such a

I set her down on the bed, then kick off my boots,

softest blanket I

the bed and wrap her up in the blanket, tucking her

chest and holding

a low, quiet voice.

got you.”

wondering what the hell I’m going to

Worse.

me if she doesn’t snap out of

home to find his sister in a catatonic state when I was

be looking after her.

a while, I start humming some old songs I used

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was quite proficient

been.

ar

besides learn a musical instrument, or play chess, or read extensively.

with smart phones or tablets or computers with their infinite troves of

how quickly

world had come

were the only source of

a few short decades, technology had exploded and

people’s lives

how long I’d lived and all

things I’d seen.

felt like a bottomless well of loneliness I

escape from.

more than anything that

and all those

is immortal like

that in my weaker moments I’ve wondered

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